Paris (AFP)

Marine Le Pen acknowledged Sunday that her voters "did not come" during the first round of the regional, the results of which are far from the expectations for the National Rally and called "for a start" for the second round.

The head of the National Rally invites her voters "not to let themselves be influenced by the results of the first round and to mobilize their efforts to wrest the victories that France needs".

The results of the first round of the regional ones thwarted most of the polls which predicted a strong surge of the RN, finally contained since the party of Marine Le Pen, which records 9 points less than in 2015, does not seem to be anywhere in the position of take it away.

The presidential candidate urged her voters to go and vote: "take five minutes of your time to make the voice of the people heard, this people who are suffering, who aspire to renewal".

"After having undergone months of restriction of your freedoms, I call on you to deconfin your ideas and to rectify the result of this first round", insisted Ms. Le Pen.

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